The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board has received applications from 19 businesses that want to sell medical marijuana in Whatcom County.

The board has so far approved six medical endorsements. All are existing stores that have a license to sell recreational pot.

Among those getting endorsements is 2020 Solutions, which has two stores in Bellingham.

“We saw the need to serve medical patients in our stores as the medical market changes dramatically,” said Aaron Nelson, senior vice president of operations for 2020 Solutions.

Nelson said 2020 applied for the endorsements shortly after the board began accepting them Oct. 12 and received approval quickly.

To help educate consumers, Flow Kana hosts soirées where guests can sample ‘tastings’ of different cannabis strains

A cannabis company is poised to become the first marijuana producer with a joint listing in Europe and the US as it seeks to take advantage of shifting attitudes to the drug that are spawning a new industry.

Golden Leaf Holdings, one of the largest cannabis oil producers in the US, has said it will list on London’s Aim or in Germany early next year — and in New York within a month.

California’s loosening laws are making it easy for on-demand services to deliver marijuana to patients stuck at home.

Mark Daniel plops his tackle box on the kitchen table, then cracks it open to show off the selection. He’s got organic granola bars with cannabis, cannabis covered in chocolate, pot-infused cookies, gummy chews and tinctures of pot oil that you drop beneath your tongue.

The frail, elderly woman across the table likes the sound of that last one. She has throat cancer and would prefer something she didn’t have to smoke.

She giggles at the thought of getting a bit stoned and finally sleeping through the night. “Yes, this is medicine,” she says, making her choice.

Warm Springs looks at building 36,000-square-foot cannabis production plant

The Warm Springs Indian Reservation may soon be home to a 36,000-square-foot marijuana greenhouse, owned and operated by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

On Dec. 17, tribal members will vote on whether the Warm Springs Tribal Council should be authorized to “allow, regulate and operate an on-reservation, tribally owned cannabis cultivation and extraction facility, with retail sales allowed only off the reservation.”

At least a 30 percent turnout — approximately 1,110 tribal members — is necessary to make the vote valid, and of those who cast ballots, at least 51 percent must vote in favor of the proposed marijuana project to allow it to go forward.

Joining Oregon, Washington D.C. and Colorado, Alaska became the fourth legal state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use this year.

Starting from the age of 21 and older, adults may possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants, all for recreational and personal purposes. That was made possible by Alaska voters approving Measure 2, which legalizes possession, use and sale of pot.

Public smoking, buying and selling remains illegal, but private exchanges are allowed if and only if money is not involved.  U.S. president Barack Obama's justice department has permitted this to proceed but with caution, since selling marijuana to children has become probable, as well as people under the influence driving their vehicle.

EUGENE, Ore. (KATU) -- A marijuana industry trade group says its offer of donated Thanksgiving food for people in need was declined by a state government agency.

The group says Oregon's Department of Human Services (DHS) initially accepted its offer, but had a change of heart because of its affiliation with the pot business.

Lindsey Jacobsen, the executive director of Women Leaders in Cannabis in Eugene, told KATU the group is “a nonprofit trade organization based on philanthropy."

At the beginning of the month, Jacobsen said the group of nearly 30 pot industry business leaders decided to give back for Thanksgiving by collecting food for the needy.

The marijuana movement, for lack of a better phrase, is growing like a weed.

Looking back only two decades we would not find a single state allowing marijuana to be legally sold in a shop or prescribed by a physician, and only a quarter of respondents in Gallup's national survey shared a favorable view of the drug.

Health officials fear legalization makes drug seem safe; council urges broader approach

Surveys of Boulder County teenagers show that a substantial majority view binge-drinking as a harmful behavior. A much smaller majority sees regular marijuana use in the same light.

Public health officials fear that the recent legalization of marijuana gives too many teenagers and parents the impression that it is safe.

Boulder plans to make up to $250,000 available next year for education efforts aimed at changing perceptions and reducing marijuana use among young people.

The medical uses of cannabis and its derivatives are continuing to be discovered at an astonishing rate. This is despite the fact that U.S. government clings to an absurd, baseless classification of cannabis as a Schedule I drug, which severely limits research and scientific advancement.

We recently reported on two rather surprising fields that could benefit from medical cannabis, as well as clinical data that backs its use for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

The smell near the Columbia Heights Metro station Wednesday night was unmistakable. A lit joint in hand, Tony Lee stood outside a residence talking with friends as the evening bustle passed them by, no one paying the group of men any special attention.

“The community I’m in, everyone engages in smoking,” said Lee, 34, a District resident who runs his own small construction firm. Plus, he said, if he’s not smoking, he detects the odor of other people getting high throughout the city on a daily basis anyway.

“I’ve grown accustomed to it,” he said.

This casual attitude to marijuana — and the distinctive waft that accompanies the smoking of it — seems to be the new norm in the District in the year since the city voted to legalize possession of small amounts of pot.